i need help on hooking up an amp to my 98 integra. i dont know anything about audio. please help.

 

are you amping highs or subs?

 

its a seperate speaker from my system,not sure what it is its my friends. i need help on the wiring. any help is appreciated.

 

positive - red - from battery to amp
negative - black or dark brown - to ground
remote- blue- to head unit
input-rca's- from head unit (if there lows)
output negative/positive to speaker

 

You're going to have to take off some panels to get it to look clean.

Run a power wire from your battery to your amp location (4-10 guage will be ok depending on size of amp and distance ran). You will also need to run a remote turn-on wire and a set of RCA cables. The remote turn-on can either be connected to your stereo's remote turn-on lead or if it doesnt have that hook it up to the power antenna lead. For the RCA's it's kinda self-explanatory. Last but not least just connect speaker wires to the amp to the speaker and your set. Make sure to put an inline fuse on your (+) lead to the battery.

 

did you have any SPECIFIC questions?

 

thanks for the advice but which wires are which on the head unit. thats the confuusiong part for me.

 

you have a factory head unit? the manual will have the wiring diagram, or someone on here. or you can pull it and sometimes there is a sticker on top of the unit giving the wiring scheme. but if you're just installing an amp - the speaker wires are already back there with the speakers. i mean, just clip into them at the speakers and run the wires to the amp. then run the output wires from the amp to your new speaker.
the hardest part is getting that big power cable from the battery to the amp, and getting a remote wire from the head unit (or cigarette lighter or something else that switches how you want it) back to the amp as well.

 

thanks! thats exactly what i did. but i didnt read your message until after. now all i have to worry about is the remote turn on. but that will be easy. thanks everybody!

 

ur right next to me, im always in pasadena. ill help u install it. lets set up something

 

thanks but i already hooked it up ghetto style. didnt have money so i just wired it to one of the rear speakers. all i have left is the remote switch so i dont have to keep unplugging it from my battery when ever i park. also i need to mount the head unit cuz the clips are missing. thanks anyway though. what are vouches for?